Joseph Campbell

In questa preziosa raccolta di saggi Joseph Campbell si mette alla ricerca della Grande Dea dall’Età del Bronzo fino al Rinascimento, analizzando le divinità e le religioni preindoeuropee e rifacendosi agli studi di Marija Gimbutas. Il grande mitologo americano riflette sulle origini della cultura europea e patriarcale di oggi, diretta discendente di quei popoli venuti dal Nord e dall’Est durante l’Età del Ferro, che a più ondate invasero l’Europa cambiandone per sempre i confini mitologici e religiosi.

PSICOANALISIS DEL MITO

En el prefacio de esta obra Campbell señala que el propósito de "El héroe de las mil caras" es descubrir algunas verdades que han estado escondidas bajo las figuras de la religión y de la mitología. La aparente sencillez de estas palabras contrasta con la complejidad que involucra tal empresa: reunir y comparar un dilatado abanico de mitos de todo el mundo, aprender a leer su lenguaje simbólico, desentrañar su gramática y, al final, revelar las verdades fundamentales que han acompañado por milenios a la humanidad. ¿Esta obra plantea una tarea heroica? Sin duda, pero, con el psicoanálisis como herramienta, estas páginas desentrañan las mil caras del mito para mostrar al final del camino un rostro atemporal y profundamente humano.

The first Joseph Campbell work to focus on the Goddess, edited and introduced by Safron Rossi, PhD, Curator of Collections at Opus Archives and Research Center, home to the archival collections of Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, and other scholars of mythology, Jungian and archetypal psychology, and the humanities. Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.While Campbell’s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world mythology. He did, however, have much to say on the subject. Between 1972 and 1986 he gave over twenty lectures and workshops on goddesses, exploring the figures, functions, symbols, and themes of the feminine divine, following them through their transformations across cultures and epochs.In this provocative volume, editor Safron Rossi—a goddess studies scholar, professor of mythology, and curator of collections at Opus Archives, which holds the Joseph Campbell archival manuscript collection and personal library—collects these lectures for the first time. In them, Campbell traces the evolution of the feminine divine from one Great Goddess to many, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance. He sheds new light on classical motifs and reveals how the feminine divine symbolizes the archetypal energies of transformation, initiation, and inspiration.

Daha önce Kabalcı Yayınları'yla okucuyla buluşan Joseph Cambell'ın kült kitabı Kahramanın Sonsuz Yolculuğu - A Hero With A Thousand Faces, şimdi İthaki etiketiyle karşınızda. Mitoloji ve insan psikolojisi arasındaki güçlü bağa dair bu zamana kadar yazılmış en iyi kitap olma niteliğini taşıyan Kahramanın Sonsuz Yolculuğu, okuyucunun hayatını olumlu yönde değiştirecek bir özelliğe sahip. Nice kurgu eserinin ilham kaynağı olan kitap, özellikle Star Wars film serisinin başlıca esin kaynağı. Joseph Cambell, tüyleri diken diken edecek anlatımıyla en sevilen eserler listenize girmeyi bekliyor. Kahramanın Sonsuz Yolculuğu'nun çevirisi Sabri Gürses'e ait. Yaratıcı yazarlık yapmak isteyenlere eşsiz bir kaynak! (Editörden) Mitlerin ve masalların gizemini çözmek için başvurulacak ilk kitap. “Elinizdeki kitabın amacı, pek de karmaşık olmayan bir örnekler yığınını bir araya getirip kadim anlamın kendi kendini ortaya çıkarmasını sağlayarak dinsel ve mitolojik figürler altında çarpıtılmış bazı gerçekleri aydınlatmaktır. Eski öğretmenler ne dediklerini bilirlerdi. Hele onların simgesel dilini okumasını bir öğrendik mi, öğretilerinin anlaşılması için bir derlemecinin yeteneğinden fazlasına ihtiyacımız yoktur. Fakat ilk önce simgelerin dilbilgisini öğrenmeliyiz ve ben, bu esrara bir anahtar olarak psikanalizden daha iyi bir araç bilmiyorum. Psikanalizi konuya dair son söz olarak kabul etmesek bile, onun bir yaklaşım olarak iş görmesine izin verebiliriz. Buradan hareketle atılacak ikinci adım, dünyanın dört bir yanından bir dizi mitle halk hikâyesini bir araya getirmek ve simgelerin kendi adına konuşmalarına izin vermek olacaktır. Benzerlikler hemen gün yüzüne çıkacaktır; üstelik bunlar insanın gezegendeki binlerce yıllık ikameti boyunca yaşayageldiği temel gerçeklerin geniş ve şaşırtıcı biçimde değişmeyen bir ifadesini ortaya çıkaracaktır.” -Joseph Campbell-

Lo scopo del libro è quello di rivelare alcune delle verità celate dietro le immagini delle numerose religioni e mitologie dell'umanità lasciando che il significato originario, distorto nel corso dei secoli, si riveli da sé: riappropriatosi dell'antica capacità di leggere il linguaggio simbolico, l'uomo moderno potrà cogliere nell'ampia varietà dei miti e dei racconti popolari di tutto il mondo, un filo rosso capace di unire le culture di ogni tempo. L'ultima parte di questo libro è dedicata al ciclo cosmogonico, dai racconti popolari della creazione, della redenzione necessaria tramite una vergine-madre, alla nascita dell'eroe e alla sua continua metamorfosi, fino alla dissoluzione del ciclo vitale dell'uomo e del mondo.

Following such volumes as Baksheesh and Brahman, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, and Thou Art That, this previously unpublished title is Volume six in the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell series. It shows Campbell’s remarkable mind engaged with a favorite topic, the myths and metaphors of Asian religions. Myths of Light collects seven lectures and articles on subjects ranging from the ancient Hindu Vedas to Zen koans, Tantric yoga, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. A worthy companion to Campbell’s Asian journals, this volume conveys complex insights through warm, accessible storytelling, revealing the intricacies and secrets of his subjects with his typical enthusiasm.

What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, retuning always to the source from which all mythology springs: the creative imagination. Campbell stresses that the borders dividing the Earth have been shattered; that myths and religions have always followed the certain basic archetypes and are no longer exclusive to a single people, region, or religion. He shows how we must recognize their common denominators and allow this knowledge to be of use in fulfilling human potential everywhere.

Apolo, Thor, Buda e outros numerosos protagonistas das religiões, mitologias, contos de fada e do folclore universal representam simultaneamente as várias fases de uma mesma história. O relacionamento entre seus símbolos intemporais e os detectados nos sonhos pela moderna psicologia profunda é o ponto de partida da interpretação oferecida por Joseph Campbell reconhecidamente, um dos maiores estudiosos e mais profundos intérpretes da mitologia universal, neste clássico obrigatório para compreender esse monomito que é a jornada do herói.

An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan. It is impossible to read this startling and entertaining book without an enlarged sense of total human possibility and an increased receptivity - 'open-endedness' as Thomas Mann called it - to the still living past. - Robert Gorham Davis Cover design by Neil Stuart. Cover illustration: Tibetan Wheel of Transmigration.

Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people's religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment — or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss. In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell's popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology's symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives. Campbell dwells on life's important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives and shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.

The first collection of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, edited and introduced by Arthurian scholar Evans Lansing Smith, PhD, the chair of Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. In this new volume of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, editor Evans Lansing Smith collects Campbell’s writings and lectures on Arthurian legends, including his never-before-published master’s thesis on Arthurian myth, “A Study of the Dolorous Stroke.” Campbell’s writing captures the incredible stories of such figures as Merlin, Gawain, and Guinevere as well as the larger patterns and meanings revealed in these myths. Merlin’s death and Arthur receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, for example, are not just vibrant stories but also central to the mythologist’s thinking. The Arthurian myths opened the world of comparative mythology to Campbell, turning his attention to the Near and Far Eastern roots of myth. Calling the Arthurian romances the world’s first “secular mythology,” Campbell found metaphors in them for human stages of growth, development, and psychology. The myths exemplify the kind of love Campbell called amor, in which individuals become more fully themselves through connection. Campbell’s infectious delight in his discoveries makes this volume essential for anyone intrigued by the stories we tell—and the stories behind them.

Joseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the book he was working on when he died. Dance was one of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s wide-ranging passions. His wife, Jean Erdman, was a leading figure in modern dance who worked with Martha Graham and had Merce Cunningham in her first company. When Campbell retired from teaching in 1972, he and Erdman formed the Theater of the Open Eye, where for nearly fifteen years they presented a wide array of dance and theater productions, lectures, and performance pieces. The Ecstasy of Being brings together seven of Campbell’s previously uncollected articles on dance, along with “Mythology and Form in the Performing and Visual Arts,” the treatise that he was working on when he died, published here for the first time. In this new collection Campbell explores the rise of modern art and dance in the twentieth century; delves into the work and philosophy of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and others; and, as always, probes the idea of art as “the funnel through which spirit is poured into life.” This book offers the reader an accessible, yet profound and provocative, insight into Campbell’s lifelong fascination with the relationship of myth to aesthetic form and human psychology.

The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns his powers of observation and analysis on his own life's journey and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of mythic traditions, which he called "the one great story of mankind." In conversations with poets, anthropologists, and philosophers, Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist and the need for ritual, to the ordeals of love and romance. Illustrated throughout with photographs from Joseph Campbell's family archive and with a new, revised introduction, The Hero's Journey introduces the reader first-hand to Joseph Campbell the man, his discoveries, his terminology, and his thinking.

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers not only the patterns and stages of mythology but also its relevance to our lives today—and to the life of any person seeking a fully realized existence. Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.

Developed from a memorable series of lectures delivered in San Francisco, which included a legendary symposium at the Palace of Fine Arts with astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Joseph Campbell’s last book explores the space age. Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as "a broadly shared spiritual adventure."

The author of such acclaimed books as Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth discusses the primitive roots of mythology, examining them in light of the most recent discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, and psychology.

An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan. It is impossible to read this startling and entertaining book without an enlarged sense of total human possibility and an increased receptivity - 'open-endedness' as Thomas Mann called it - to the still living past. - Robert Gorham Davis Cover design by Neil Stuart. Cover illustration: Tibetan Wheel of Transmigration.

A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world.

This volume explores the whole inner story of modern culture since the Dark Ages, treating modern man's unique position as the creator of his own mythology.

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power Of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.